Also Sunday, officials said the majority of the 44 people who were injured in the bus crash have been released from local hospitals.
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A damaged OGA Charters bus is hauled away after a fatal rollover on Saturday, May 14, 2016, south of the Dimmit-Webb County line on US 83 North in Texas. A Texas DPS trooper said the road was wet from rain, but it hasn’t been determined if that played a role in the driver losing control.
It was not immediately clear Sunday if that was same charter bus that crashed Saturday about 46 miles north of Laredo, Texas, or what steps the company took to fix the problems with its sidelined bus between inspections. The bus company is based in San Juan in Hidalgo County.
“We know this carrier had the vehicle violation problems”, Kildare said.
Hein said the driver was among the survivors.
The bus, traveling near the border with Mexico, was heading to a casino in the city of Eagle Pass, according to a statement of Webb County where the accident occurred.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators arrived Sunday in Laredo to try to determine a cause of the crash, with a spokesman saying they will be looking at how the company operated. A hospital in Dimmit County, which received seven victims, could not be reached for comment.
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A Texas state trooper says the driver of a charter bus involved in a deadly rollover crash remains hospitalized with major injuries and has not been interviewed by police. In January 2015, two state corrections officers and eight inmates were killed after their Texas Department of Criminal Justice bus struck a piece of displaced highway guardrail west of Odessa.
